# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 893139245 0 # Node ID 303a96060ff1e140dfcc83d770d9c553bcbd3d92 # Parent 2a33987c0f0279cc501948de885980a7a3784dc1 More of previous. diff -r 2a33987c0f02 -r 303a96060ff1 INSTALL --- a/INSTALL Tue Apr 21 06:13:36 1998 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL Tue Apr 21 06:14:05 1998 +0000 @@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make' that supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. -3c) Some people try to build in a separate directory -by filling it full of symlinks to the real source directory. +3c) Some people try to build in a separate directory by filling +it full of symlinks to the files in the real source directory. If you do that, `make all' does work, but `make install' fails: it copies the symbolic links rather than the actual files.